Improvement in fence-post socket



GEORGE UNGER, OF DANVILLE, PNNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 90,611, dated May 25, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FENCE-POST SOCKET.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part cf the same.

To all whom 'it may concern: l

Be it known that I, GEORGE UNGER, of Danville, in the county of Mon tour, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Post- 4Sockets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, 4and the letters of reference marked thereon.

The object of my invention is to produce a convenient and durable socket for iron or wooden posts.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a section of a fence furnished with my invention, one post of which is wood and the other iron.

lFigure 2 represents an upright section of my postsocket, containing post in place.

A represents the wooden post, and B the iron post, set in the socket, which consists of two castirnplates, O and D, connected, one above the other, by the rods e e e e, riveted through each, the upper plate having a socket, f, cast in it, and being furnished with flanges, which are cast on each side of the centre of the upper plate, with a diameter somewhat larger than that of the socket, and having a hole cast or drilled through each, opposite, to admit thepin or rivet which secures the post.

If the post be of wood, it should be made with a shoulder, which rests upon the ledge between the flanges, preventing it from slipping down below the bottom of the socket. Above the shoulder there should be a hole bored, through which the pin or rivet h is passed. y

If the post be of iron, it is best that it should extend beyond the bottom of the socket in the upper plate down to the lower plate, and be set in a socket formed in the same, or it may restupon. the surface.

In setting my sockets'for fencing, 1 dig a hole in the ground of sucient size, and place the socket so that it will rest on a. level; then insert the post, and fasten by means of therivet or pin, after which the earth is packed tgbtlyixr and around the socket, making the fence to which it may be attachedvfirm and secure.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction and use' of a postsocket, formed of cast-iron plates, with sockets and flanges, connected with rods, and arranged substantially forl the purpose as hereinbefore described.

' GEORGE UN GER.

Witnesses:

GEO. D. BUTLERI DAVID UNSER. 

